Solutions Architect, Enterprise (German-Speaking)

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Solutions Architecture team works with large, complex users to understand their technical requirements and map them to Stripe technology.

The role partners with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions for payment transactions, money movements, and financial operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leaders at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate innovations, and define solution strategies.
• Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe provides.
• Advocate for customers internally by representing their needs to product engineering and influencing product direction and priorities.
• Create technical content, including reference architectures and demos, for users.
• Speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams and customer organizations, from C-level executives to product engineering teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of work experience or equivalent in roles including pre-sales, technical architecture, application architecture, systems architecture, integration, technical consulting, application delivery, or technical engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
• Strong technical knowledge of software architecture, with breadth across technology stacks and deep hands-on skills.
• Ability to discuss technical concepts and explain how they work from both product feature and API architecture perspectives.
• Ability to write code.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to present to large audiences in both German and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in payment systems and e-commerce solutions.